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React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

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Re: React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

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Post by givehimagun »

Prediction - there will be a Harvard Business Review about Facebook's adventure with licensing. My unproven hypothesis is that they hurt their software's adoption rate because of their licensing.

Personally, I believe MIT is correct. I had moved my company away from React when they had the licensing problems. To me, it feels like they are coming back to the community now.

Re: React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

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Post by dikaiosune »

milcron wrote: post #3

Wait, they're getting rid of the patents grant?

Some are of the opinion that MIT includes an implicit patent grant/license. Googling around I don't see many references to support this, but there are a few:

    * http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Relation_to_Patents
Regardless of armchair and/or professional legal opinions, I don't believe this has been tested in court in the US at least.

Re: React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

tmwed wrote: post #5

say what you will about Facebook, this is a huge gift.

This was going to end in one of two ways: either the Facebook source-available projects would switch to a community-approved license OR the community would migrate to something else like the VueJS ecosystem. And between those two, FB definitely benefits more from being the stewards of technologies that people will continue to use.

Re: React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

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Post by zitterbewegung »

givehimagun wrote: post #2

Prediction - there will be a Harvard Business Review about Facebook's adventure with licensing. My unproven hypothesis is that they hurt their software's adoption rate because of their licensing. Personally, I believe MIT is correct. I had moved my company away from React when they had the licensing problems. To me, it feels like they are coming back to the community now.

Of course it hurt their software adoption rate. You have very public spats by wordpress and apache over this. Think of people who couldn't convince their boss to use react / react-native because the legal department saw that PATENTS file and said NO WAY.

I think they are making these moves because they see that they are going to be in a weaker position in the future and need to open their grip on these projects to make sure that other people will use it. Its probably too late though and people are moving off of it to the next javascript framework.

Re: React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

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Post by vuln »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #6
tmwed wrote: post #5

say what you will about Facebook, this is a huge gift.

This was going to end in one of two ways: either the Facebook source-available projects would switch to a community-approved license OR the community would migrate to something else like the VueJS ecosystem. And between those two, FB definitely benefits more from being the stewards of technologies that people will continue to use.

People are addicted to using. With no real production.
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